Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-14
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SEVERAL Western bOoms are reported
about busting"
THE Evangeline company leaves for
Pittsburg this morning.
OFFICER SHORT arrested W. F. Kline
yesterday for drunkenness.
"GROGAN's ELEVATION at the Grand
Opera House this evening.
Gus WEIGH was run in by Officer West
Yesterday for diSorderly conduct.
PROPOSALS are asked for cushions and
carpets for the Third Presbyterian Church.
THEY are cleaning house at the City
Hall. The gas Office war torn up yester-
day.
"BLACKMAIL" will be the attraction at
the Grand the first three nights OF next
week.
THE Park will soon be opened to the
public. Many Improvements have been
made on the grounds.
THE members of the home team spent
an hour or two in practice yesterday. The
boys will soon be in good shape.
THE Howell House has been refitted
throughout and is now one OF the hnest
furnished hotels ever in the city.
THE foundations for the iron building to
cover the crematOry have been completed.
The building will soon be erected.
THEY do say that Mallory, Wheeling's
pitcher, will paralyze the boys this year.
He sends them in like cannon balls.
THE buildings at the base hall grounds
are not yeteompleted, great deal Of work
yet remaining 10 be done. A hydrant was
put in yesterday.
FLORIST NoyiOek yesterday presented
the REGISTER with q bunch Of SiIiUn Hdr-
riii lilies. They are beautiful and the
gilt is highly appreciated.
AFTER much dickering Hanke and Faui-
kenstein, the we'll known roller skaters,
have come To terms, and will skate at the
Alhambra rink next Saturday evening for
800 a side.
JOIN CRAWFORD, \ prominent young
horse buyer of Cameron, w. Va, has line
lot of horses at the ST. Chares Hotel sta
bles? There are several fancy drivers
among them.
THE Circle of Friendship gave q very
pleasant dance at MaennerchOr Hall lat
evening. 4 large crowd was present and
most delightful evening was spent dane
ing to Mayors music.
PROF. JOE KRAMER will take a fine
hand with him to White Sulphur Springs
this summer. His many friends are pre-
yailiug upon him to give a concert before
he leaves, which he may do.
MI. NJ. V. SMITH, the contractor of our
crematory, who has been in the city for q
day or two, left for Chicago yesterday,
where he will contract to erect large gar
bage furnace for the Garden City.
MASTER Ed, son of Mrs. C. C. Miller,
of the Island, while playing with q toy
pistol yesterday morning, received Sc
we're wound in the palm OF one of his hands
by the premature discharge of the weapon.
A TEMPERANCE TEA will be given at
the residence of Mr.. III. b. Hubbard, 2l23
EOtI street, Friday evening. Arrangements
have been made to make this y most en-
jOyable affair and those who attend are
assured most delightful evening.
WILL SEABRIGHT, the son of Charles
Seabright, OF the Riverside blast furnace,
who was burned so badly some time since
at the BenwOOd steel plant, is still in q
precarious condition. The doctors have
hopes of his recovery, unless lockiaw sets
IN.
ABOUT half-past six o'clock last even
ing while Ferdinand Flagle and Henry
Wood were driving horse and buggy past
| the Excelsior mill, in Martins Ferry, the
animal became frightened and ran OIL,
smashing therig badly and slightly wound
Ing both gentlemen.
THE pair of kettle drums which were
ordered from across the sea by the Opera
| House Orchestra, have arrived in New
| York and will he here in time to be used
/ by the Orchestra ut its grand concert next
] Monday evening. Jack Gallagher VIII
handle them in his accustomed style
| A LARGE crowd assembled ut ArlOn Hall
last evening to participate in the festivities
incident upon the grand ball gwen by the
| Butchers Protective Association Of the
Ohio Valley. Kramer's orchestra furnish
ed the music and delightful evening was
spent by all. The affair was very success
ful in every particular.
On Tuesday evening of next week Joe
! Emmett is booked for the Opera House; on
| Thursday evening McCaul's Opera Com
pany i'm the "Rlack HuSSar," in which
they recently made such y hit here. On
Friday and Saturday evenings, Chas. +.
Werner will present several great attrac-
tons, among them being ''Shaugaraun.
4 VERY delightful reception was held
last evening at the residence of Mrs. Brues
on North Front street, Island. Music,
conversation and refreshments were tea-
| lures OF most enjoyable evening and the
large crowd present enjoyed them to the
| fullest extent The sum realized, which
| is q neat one, is for the benefit OF st. Luke j
=. T.. Church Of the Island.
LARGE numbers have been attending
the great HartkopT Museum Of Anatomy
at 1910 Market, corner of Eleventh street,
which is open every day from 10 n. IN. to
10 p. m. Friday afternoon will be set
aside for ladies' exclusively. The exhibit
ton is the most varied and wonderful ever
seen in Wheeling. No one should fail to
see this very interesting collection.
MIR. FRANK TAYLOR, q we'll known
compOSitOr and Miss Cora NJ. Gillespie, OF
the East End, We're married, last evening,
Rev. Hess, pastor of the Zane Street NJ. f.
Church. officiating. The ceremony took
place at the residence OF the brides mother,
on Fourteenth street, at : o'clock, after
which the guests partOOk Of an excellent
wedding supper. The couple have the
best wishes of large circle Of friends.
THE Ladies' Quartette Club, composed
Of Miss Nellie Sweeney-Palmer, Miss Flora
Williams, Miss Mary Bankard and Miss
Sara Sweeney, assisted by Miss Gay Dun
can and Miss Floride BOwcock, of Clarks-
burg, gave q very successful concert at
Canton, o., Tuesday evening for the ben
eft of the Episcopal Church. The Opera
House was filled with an appreciative
audience and the concert WAS y great sue.
cess.
New dress goods arriving daily at Stone
4 Thomas.